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“BriansClub” Hack Rescues 26M Stolen Cards

October 15, 2019 0 Comments allison nixon, andrei barysevich, briansclub, briansclub hack, Data Breaches, flashpoint, gemini advisory, Ne'er-Do-Well News, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:05:09 +0000

“BriansClub,” a popular underground store for buying stolen credit card data that uses Yours Truly’s likeness in its advertising, has itself been hacked. The data stolen from BriansClub encompasses more than 26 million credit and debit card records taken from hacked online and brick-and-mortar retailers over the past four years, including almost eight million records uploaded to the shop in 2019 alone.

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Interview With the Guy Who Tried to Frame Me for Heroin Possession

September 25, 2019 0 Comments flashpoint, fly, flycracker, muxacc1, Ne'er-Do-Well News, pauch, sergei vovnenko

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 00:28:36 +0000

In April 2013, I received via U.S. mail more than a gram of pure heroin as part of a scheme to get me arrested for drug possession. But the plan failed and the Ukrainian mastermind behind it soon after was imprisoned for unrelated cybercrime offenses. That individual recently gave his first interview since finishing his jail time here in the states, and he’s shared some select (if often abrasive and coarse) details on how he got into cybercrime and why. Below are a few translated excerpts.